CORAL GABLES – If you haven’t heard by now, the Hurricanes football program raised some eyebrows with its decision to post fliers around the school’s Wellness Center soliciting students “at least 6-foot-1 and 230-plus pounds” to walk-on as offensive linemen.

“I think it’s laughable that people are making a big deal about that. That happens at every program in the country,” Golden said. “Every program looks for walk-ons from the student body. The hope is you find one or two that help us — a guy like [UM LB Nantambu] Fentress, for example.

“If we don’t put fliers like that we don’t have a story like Nantambu Fentress a year ago, because the kids don’t understand that we’re looking for that and don’t believe they have access. It’s an easy target, so if people want to make fun of it and all, that’s fine. We’re going to run our organization. I’m not a politician, I’m not looking for public approval.

“At the end of the day, we’re trying to find guys in the student body that can help us. Nate Gholston helped us a lot. Chris Ivory helped us a lot. Fentress helped us a lot. [Garrett] Kidd is helping us a lot now. Darius Hughes and [Sean] McNally is helping us a lot now.

“The fact we specifically targeted o-linemen, it’s not secret – everybody knows we don’t have the depth we want there. So [the story] is a bunch to do about really nothing, to be honest with you.”

Most colleges advertise for walkons to try out for the team. At Nebraska it was a source of pride. Golden was correct to say some kids didn’t think they had access to the program. Of course a dbag like Woody Paige is going to try to take cheapshots at the program. Woody went to Tennessee where they have always advertised for walkons. Miami is just looking for practice players.

The negative media response we got on this might not be such a bad thing. There are offensive lineman, maybe even a few quality OL on other teams who noticed the media attention this garnered. Now some of those OL might not be too happy with their position on their respective teams depth chart. In addition they might have a resentment towards the coach and might